Event 2 | Getty Museum | Abelardo Morell
Abelardo Morell ’s exhibition is represented by Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Abelardo is an American artist born 1948 in Cuba. He is famous for pushing boundaries of medium while exploring visual surprise and wonder. Abelardo and his family fled Cuba in 1962 and moved to Boston in his young age, which made his style of works. There are basically three categories of photographs he created that impressed me dramatically, namely Camera Obscura, Tent Camera and Books and Maps.
For the Camera Obscura series, which is the early works done by Abelardo, he photographed large scale images of inside of household and superimposed the photo with upside down outside scenes. The collections create strong visual conflict from in terms of inside to outside and upright to upside down. The supper imposition created uncanny effect in terms of visual impact, as Freud would say, “Unhomelike.” One of the most impressive photo would be the Ocean fills an Attic. The background of the photo is the sea view, and the remaining is the display of attic of the place he lived in. To me, the art work depicted the thought of a teenager, who is eager of the outside world, and the world is some what distorted to some extent by his illusion.
Another breath taking collection is the Tent Camera series created in 2010. Abelardo was intend to present the grandeur of the American wilderness, and the first work was done in Big Bend National Park, located in Texas. He placed periscope lens on top of the portable tent and took photo of the scene outside reflected onto ground. The image is therefore composing photograph of outside underfoot. The collections lead me reflecting about the topic of robotics and art, as well as two cultures. Through different aspects of viewing things, Abelardo created ground breaking works accompany with various mediums and technologies. Beside black or white ordinary films, Abelardo used the distorted or transmitted outside scenes as background to display the enlarged scale of relatively small objects.
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